- to review the implementation of the programme of work for the period 2014–2016 (ECE/MP.WH/11/Add.1− EUDCE/1206123/3.1/2013/MOP-3/06/Add.1) adopted at the third session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol (Oslo, 25–27 November 2013)- to provide guidance on its further development, with particular consideration of the financial situation- to initiate a strategic discussion towards the formulation of the programme of work for 2017–2019 to be adopted at the fourth session of the Meeting of the Parties (Bern, 14–16 November 2016).